Deadly Ghost Photo

For quite some time a ghostly photo has been making its way
through the internet attached to a chain letter with a deadly
story and a warning. And for quite some time we at Haunted Bay
have felt left out because nobody forwarded this letter to us as a
chain letter.
Well we don't have to feel left out any more because it has finally
arrived (via 39 other people), the famous "Read before you look at the
photo" letter.

Here is the letter:

The guy in the photo went to the Sundarbans with
his friends and he asked 1 of his friends to take his picture in that
very place. While his friend was taking the picture he screamed and
fainted, 2 days later he died in the medical college. Doctors said he
died because of heart attack.

When the photos were exposed, in the last photo there was a lady
standing right beside him though friends claim that he was standing
alone.

Many people said it is a rumor and the picture is the result of the
blessings of latest technology. However, the photo itself is very
scary and I'm sure you'll also feel the same way I've felt. Here you
go with the photo!!

A navy officer sent this letter to 13 people and he was promoted!

A business man received this letter and threw it away ..not
believing in it.. and he lost everything he had within 13 days..

It reached a labourer and he distributed it to 13 people.. he was
promoted and all his problems were solved within 13 days..

So you must send this e mail to 13 people for something good
to happen to you so people.. get sending !! :) don't be lazy..

P/S : Do not send back to the person who send this to you!!!

Needless to say it is a hoax and suffers from some rather
poor photo editing but let's face it, a great story. It's
reminiscent of the various Ring
movies where, after watching a video tape, the viewer has only a
limited time to live or in this case before something bad
happens. In both cases if you do something, either solving the
mystery of the ring in the case of the movies or forwarding on
the letter here, you can avoid misfortune.

What takes this hoax a step above the average urban legend
type hoax is both its longevity and the amount of disturbance it
has caused. Reported in an Ananova
story last year an Indian newspaper was duped into reporting
both the photo and the story which apparently caused quite a
stir when it was picked up by other news agencies. Residents of
the covered areas took the story seriously and made their
children stay out of the region where this incident supposedly
took place and even went so far as to keep their children out of
school.

Interestingly, this isn't the first time this particular
ghost has made rounds in a hoax photo chain letter. The photo to the right
circulated prior to the above with a story about a British photographer
who took the photo in an old Malaysian cemetery some time after World War II.
The story goes on to say that the photographer saw nothing unusual while
actually taking the photo but upon developing the film he saw the
ghostly figure. After viewing the developed photo he began to have
horrible nightmares in which the woman from the photo would visit him.
He discovered she was raped and murdered by Japanese soldiers during the
war and will not rest until she finds her murderers. Of course, the
reader, having now seen the photo will become the victim of these
terrible nightmares too unless they send the photo to 50 people.

Our guess is we haven't seen the last of this ghostly apparition. We
can only imagine what deathly fun she will be up to next time.

Have you received a spooky letter like these? Then contact
us or forward the email to spookyletters @ hauntedbay.com, we'd like to
hear about it.